Catherine’s POV
“Give me the necklace back, and I’ll forget about the fact that you used me today,” I said, getting straight to the point.
Gina walked over to the wine cabinet and poured herself a glass of wine. She gracefully shook the glass, took a sip, and sneered, “What if I say no? What can you do about it? What I said was the truth. I can’t stop the media if they want to create hype.”
“You and I are not sisters. What you said wasn’t the truth at all,” I sneered, feeling that Gina was becoming more shameless.
“Even though we are not sisters now, we used to be. Do you expect me to tell the media all this? Do you want them to know that my father bought you back? That you’re just a pitiful wretch abandoned by your rogue parents?” Gina said slowly, looking confident.
I glared at Gina. I hadn’t seen her for a few years, and she had become more scheming.
“Aren’t you afraid that Blake will be angry with you for treating me like this?” I suddenly had an idea. I realized that I could use Blake to keep her at bay.
Sure enough, when Gina heard Blake’s name, the complacency on her face instantly disappeared.
She glared at me, a little embarrassed. “Don’t try to scare me with him. I didn’t do anything to offend him. Besides, the media is sensitive anyway. I didn’t admit anything. How can you blame me?”
“I don’t care if you were the snitch. You were the only one who would benefit. And it is also the fact that you used me to get popular again. So, if you don’t agree with my terms now, you won’t get anything,” I took the chance to say when I saw that she finally was scared.
She gritted her teeth. “Catherine, stop being so smug. Blake will dump you sooner or later. I’m sure of that.”
“I don’t care if he dumps me in the future. Right now, everyone knows that I’m his girlfriend. You know it, right? It’s the same as saying that I am the future Lycan Luna. I don’t think he will turn a blind eye to the fact that you used me,” I sneered.
Gina couldn’t help but clench her teeth. “Ask for something else, because I’m not giving the necklace back to you.”
“The necklace is the only thing I want. If you refuse to give it back to me, I will call him now,” I said firmly.
“Stop bluffing. I don’t believe that Blake will care about such a trivial matter! Besides, you are not that important to him.” Gina smiled coldly.
I hated Gina’s guts. She was the one who ruined my reputation. How could she say these so plausibly? Exactly how shameless she was?
I was just about to get my phone out and call Blake. And now, I looked down and found that the phone was indeed in my hand.
Gina stared at the phone in my hand. She had a confident look on her face that she knew I wouldn’t dare to call Blake.
I cursed silently.
In fact, I didn’t want to rely on Blake to fix my private business.
Because I had no intention of getting entangled with a man like Blake. Once I did, I would never be able to get out.
But right now, I used him to let Gina get cold feet. I placed myself in a dilemma.
Gina was shrewd enough to see through my hesitation. She sneered, “Catherine, aren’t you going to call him? What is stopping you? You don’t dare to call him, right? As I expected, you must have pulled some kind of shameless stunt to get Blake to publicly announce that you are his girlfriend. What you’re doing is just like what I did back then, wanting to use him to hype up. Do you want to debut as an actress?”
“Shut up!” I didn’t want to hear her crap. I never thought of being a star.
“What is it? Are you pissed off because I see through you? Did you also use what happened five years ago to force Blake to announce your relationship? You are an imitator. It’s so lame. Can you stop imitating me?” When Gina saw that I was silent, she was more confident that she had figured out what I was thinking. She mocked me complacently.
“Who said I was imitating you? Do you really think I didn’t dare to call him? I’ll call him now.” I was so fed up with Gina’s paranoia. How could she compare herself with me? I never plotted against anyone.
Gina’s face stiffened and then turned pale.
I took a deep breath and made up my mind to dial Blake’s number.
Then I pressed the speakerphone and showed Gina my phone screen.
Gina’s eyes widened in disbelief. I was also nervous.
I knew it was just a phone call. But why was my heart beating so fast?
“Hello…” a low and magnetic male voice sounded.
“Cathy…” the hoarse voice called my name gently.
Gina stared at me with eyes of jealousy and resentment.
“I’ll give you the necklace back!” Gina was instantly frightened. She whispered.
I was a little stunned. When Blake called my name, I felt that something like a feather gently brushed past my heart. It made me itchy and numb.
“Cathy?” Blake said with concern after not hearing my sound for a long time.
I quickly pressed my phone to my ear and said lightly, “I’m sorry. I dialed the wrong number. Got to go now.”
Gina suffered a great blow. She was no longer arrogant. Her fingers that were holding the glass of wine tightened. It was as if she was about to crush the glass.
“It can’t be real… I can’t believe he is so gentle with you. Why? He never called me like that!” Gina cried out in pain and despair. She slammed the glass in her hand to the ground. “Why you? Tell me! What exactly did you do to take him away from me? Tell me now!”
Seeing that Gina was rushing over to grab my shoulder, I vigilantly took a few steps back and reached out to push her hands away. “Stop acting like crazy. Give me the necklace back.”
“You want the necklace? Fine! I’ll give it to you!” Gina turned around and took out the necklace. But she didn’t want to hand it to me. Instead, she threw it on the floor in front of her. “Take it.”
My heart trembled as I watched it break in two.
Gina crouched on the ground in despair, crying like a crazy woman. “I hate you, Catherine, I hate you so bad!”
I squatted down stiffly and picked up the necklace with trembling fingers. “Gina, I can’t believe you broke the necklace my mother left me with. How can you be so malicious?”
“Malicious? You are more malicious than me. You snatched away the man I loved the most, and you made me desperate. Fine! Go ahead! Call him now! Let him come here and kill me! I’d rather be killed by him than let him torture me!” Gina suffered a huge blow. She was like a maniac, with tears in her eyes.